Attachment for bean-harvesters.



PATENTED DEC. 31, 1907 G, E. LEWIS. ATTACHMENT FOR BEAN HARVESTERS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 27, 1907.

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.110. 875,275; PATENTED 111-10. :11, 1907.

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ATTAGHMENT 'FOR BEAN HARVESTERS.

APWPLIGATIOK FILED MAR. 27, 1907.

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GERSHAM E. LEWIS, OF DEWEY, OKLAHOMA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO W. H. HESS, OF

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ATTACK-DENT FOR BEAN-HARVESTERS.

No. 875,275. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Dec. 31, 1907. Application filed glam 27, 1907- Serial 0. 364;,937.

T all whom it may concern: tending forwardly therefrom, the rear end of Be it known that l, GnRsHAM E. Lnwrs, which is split or spread as best seen in 2,

citizen of the United States, residing at the side levers for adjusting the knives 'or Dewey, Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma, have shares, 6 the guards, 7 the knives or shares 5 invented certain new and useful lmprove-- which converge rearwardly from the guards, to

ments' in Attachments for Bean-- Harvesand 8 the cleaners which consist of steel rods ters, of which the following is a specification. attached to the guards.

' In the operation of gathering beans with My improved gathering attachment emthe use of a harvesting machine, the harvesbodies two longitudinally extending sills 9 '10 tar, as it travels along, cuts the roots of the and 10 that are clipped, bolted, or otherwise 65 beans and pushes them into a row between secured to the beams 1 and 2 of the harvcsthe two blades or shares. The beans are ter framework and also embodies a transthus left more or lessin the dirt and attendverse sill 11 at the rear ends of the sills 9 ants follow the harvesting machine, with and 10.

15 forks in hand and pitch the beans out of the The forks or teeth 12 that are designed to '70 dirt and throw them into piles to dry. When gather the beans as they are laid in rows bedry they are thrown on a wagon and hauled tween the shares 7 are arranged in transverse away. series as shown, and are bowed longitudi- This invention has for its object an imnally, the series itself being bowed transproved attachment for bean harvesters, versely somewhat to produce what may be which will pick the beans up out of the dirt, termed a basket structure. The teeth 12 are as soon as they are harvested and pile them preferably composed of spring steel and are ready to dry and pitch into the wagon or secured between their upper and lower ends other receptacle. to a bowed rod 13 and are also secured at 25 a The invention consists in a simple, durable, their upper ends in a pivotal manner, prefer- 1 and efficient construction of attachment of ably by being curled around a transveisel this character, and also in the details of con extending shaft 14, as shown, the said teet struction and arrangement of parts thereof, being spaced from each other at their pivoted which I shall hereinafter fully describe and ends by means of a series of groove spools 30 then point out the novel features in the ap- 15, slipped over said shaft. The shaft 14 is pended claim. journaled at its ends in strap brackets 16 For a full understanding of the invention that are slotted as shown for vertical adjustand the merits thereof and also to acquire a mcnt and are adapted for locking engageknowledge of the details of construction of ment at different elevations with the ver- 35 the means for effecting the result, reference is tically disposed members of angular brackets to be had to the following description and 17 secured to the ends of the transverse sill accompanying drawings, in which: 11. The opposing faces of the strap brack Figure 1 is a perspective view of a bean ets 16 and the members of the angular brackharvester equipped with the improvements ets 17 with which they engage are preferably 40 of my invention; Fig. 2 is a lan view of the serrated or roughene to insure a rigid conattachment; Fig. 3 is a side c ovation thereof; nection after the bolts which extend through Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of one of the brackets 17 intothe slots 16 have been the bell cranks employed, the end of one of. tightened? the forks and a bushing around which the 18 designates braces connecting the sills 45 fork is adapted to fit; and, Fig. 5 is a detail 9 and 10 w1th the respectlve brackets 17. perspective view of one of the bearings. In their lower operatlve posltion, the series Corresponding and like parts are referred of gathering teeth 12 are located just back of to in the following description and indicated the shares or blades 7 and in order to raise in all the views of the drawings by the same and lower the teeth, I pnf'erably provide two 50 reference characters. bell cranks 19 that are mounted at their el- Referring to the drawings, which show, for bows on the shaft l l and; are secured at one the purpose of illustration only, a standard end to rod 13. The other arms of said type of bean harvesting machine, 1 andizdesbell pra ks are connected, respectively, to ignate the main transverse beams of the the links 20, 21 that are in turn connected to to framework, 3 the drivcrssoat, 4 the pole we l the levers 22, 23, fulcrumed on brackets or 119 castings- 24 and 24', attached to the longitudinal sills 9 and 10. 'Each of these levers is provided with afoot portion 25; ferred arrangement, the levers are designed to operate in opposite directions, that is, one lever is fulcrumed at its end and has its link connected thereto above the fulcrurn, while the-other lever is fulorumed in-' termeiliate of its ends and has its link connected thereto below the fulcrum. Both levers are arranged in proper relation to the drivers seat 3.

From the foregoing description in connection with the accompanying drawings, it will be seen that in the practical operation, as the beanharvester travels over the fields and [cuts the beans and lays-them in rows, the

teeth 12 in lowered position just back. of the shares will gather up the beans from the dirtas soon as the beans have beeneut', and that as soon as the teeth shall have been filled, the driver may, by manipulating the levers, raise the basket-like series of teeth anddump the load into a pile,'where the beans may be left,

In the preseams to dry and then pitched into a wagon, (31

other receptacle desi' ed to receive them.'

Having thus described the'invention, what e said. spools, a bowed rod connecting together said series ofteeth at .points'intermedlate of their ends, bell cranks fulcrumed on said shaft, one arm ofeach'of said bell cranks being connected to said rod,jand levers fulcrumed on the framework and operativel' connected to the other arms of said vbe l cranks. j

In testimony whereof I-aflix my in presence of twotwitnesses. f

GERSHAM E; LEWIS. Witnesses:

WILLIAM R. HAMILTQN, H. J. SMITH;

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